This Week at DERI

27. March 2009 @ 13:35 · Filed under This Week at DERI

Dear readers,

As usual, "This week at DERI" gives you a general overview about recent publications, projects and upcoming events.
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Book

The Social Semantic Web - Breslin, John G., Passant, Alexandre, Decker, Stefan 
This forthcoming book to be published by Springer in Autumn 2009, is now available to pre-order from both Springer and Amazon.

 

Book Chapter

The Future of Social Websites: Sharing Data and Trusted Applications with Semantics - Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, and Ajit Jaokar. Advances in Computers, 76, Marvin Zelkowitz (editor)

Project news

The Clique Research Cluster is focussed on the analysis and visualisation of large graphs and networks, specifically social networks and biological networks. The cluster is made up of researchers from DERI - Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) and UCD and the companies IBM, Idiro Technologies and Norkom. The Clique Research Cluster will hold their first research meeting at DERI on Friday April 3rd.

Next weeks events (Conferences – Workshop...)

Next Tutorial at DERI on thursday April 2nd :
Social Semantic Web : Introduction - Alexandre Passant, John Breslin

This tutorial will explain how Semantic Web technologies can be applied to Social Media websites in order to solve their common issues. They will detail both languages (such as FOAF and SIOC) and tools (Semantic blogging, semantic wikis ...) of the Social Semantic Web.

Reminder : slides of the two first DERI tutorials are available on our DERI Tutorials webpage

The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April in DERI building at NUI, Galway and will run from 10am to 5pm both days. Registration is free.

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This Week at DERI

20. March 2009 @ 12:24 · Filed under This Week at DERI

 

Project news

RDFa in Drupal - examples and use cases. This video was presented during DrupalCon DC 2009 at the Practical Semantic Web and Why You Should Caresession.

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To get more informations : Stéphane Corlosquet's post about RDFa and Drupal examples and use cases and Dries Buytaert's post (Drupal creator) about RDfa and drupal.

A summary about this last exciting six months in terms of SIOC-related developments is available in the "Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #9". To read it : http://sioc-project.org/node/336

The team of Romulus massively contribute to the community effort re. pushabck/RDForms. You can check a recent screencast about Pushback/RDForms : http://vimeo.com/3663028

 

Next weeks events

The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April in DERI building at NUI, Galway and will run from 10am to 5pm both days. Registration is free. See a detailed programme at : http://groups.drupal.org/node/18452

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13. March 2009 @ 14:49 · Filed under This Week at DERI

Dear readers !

Welcome to this first post of the series "This week at DERI", in which we provide some informations about what happened this week in the institute.

DERI News

Welcome to the 6 new members : Gerhard Gosse, Pierre Ludwick, Marek Jozwowicz, Darren O’Geraghty, Dr. Marcel Karnstedt, Julie Letierce. The institute is now composed of 118 people

DERI Tutorial aims to give a comprehensive overview on the understanding of the topics covered by our institute. The slides of the two first DERI tutorials ((1) Introduction to the Semantic Web and (2) Principles of Publishing Linked Data) and the list of the following are now on DERI's website - Video recording of the lectures are coming soon.

Job opportunity : postdoctoral researcher at the CLIQUE Strategic Research Cluster

DERI Galway on Twitter. You can now follow us ! @derigalway

Articles (Journal Articles – Books & Chapters –  Proceedings)

Life sciences on the Semantic Web: the Neurocommons and beyond
Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan A. Rees, Matthias Samwald and M. Scott Marshall.

This paper describes how current Semantic Web technologies can be used for data integration in the life sciences and medicine, enabling the faster identification of new therapies. A mirror of the "Neurocommons Knowledge Base" described in the paper is hosted at DERI. http://hcls.deri.org

Project news

For the SFI Lion II project, DERI's DI2 (Data Intensive Infrastructures Unit) is on its way toward implementing WebStar, DERI's Web Science Laboratory. This cluster will consist in 36 dual processor machines. More about DI2 

Software news

DERI Pipes reaches version 0.7. DERI Pipes is a service that allows to mix different data sources together using a user-friendly online interface. This version allows to build complex mash-ups as in the following example . More details about DERI Pipes

A SIOC exporter for MediaWiki was recently made available online . It provides a way to create SIOC data from existing wiki, enabling a better interoperability between them and integration with other SIOC-enabled social software. More details about SIOC.

Next week events (Conferences – Workshop...)

DERI at WebScience - The first International Web Science conference which aims at gathering people from different background interested on the evolution and the impact on the Web on society. Alexandre Passant and Benjamin Heitman will present the following papers :

  • Passant, Alexandre and Samwald, Matthias and Breslin, John and Decker, Stefan (2009) Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society. http://journal.webscience.org/179/ 
  • Jungherr, Andreas and Jürgens, Pascal and Heitmann, Benjamin (2009) The interplay of theory and observation: a proposition for structured research on human behavior on the web. http://journal.webscience.org/188/
  • Heitmann, Benjamin and Hayes, Conor and Oren, Eyal (2009) Towards a reference architecture for applications leveraging Semantic Web technologies. http://journal.webscience.org/201/

From the 17th to the 19th of March, SAP Consulting Office in Berlin will be hosting the final SUPER workshop, before the final review of the project. The main purpose of the EU-funded SUPER project, in which DERI is involved, is to bring back business process management to business professionals. More details

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